Plants and Bulbs

Tips for analyzing the past years garden as a way of preparing and planning for next year.

Trellis ideas for saving space in your vegetable garden. Trellising fruits and vegetables is a gardening technique that keeps plants off the ground, improves production and increases usable space. It also prevents your harvest, particularly tomatoes, from rotting.

Many gardeners unknowingly miss half of their fertilization schedule because they focus on the ground. But, foliar feeding will increase your harvest.

Green vegetables may not always be on everyone’s “favorite foods” list. I have to be honest, lettuce isn’t exactly the first thing I reach for when I’m hungry for a snack. But you can switch up your usual side salad at dinnertime with some unique “superfoods,” power-packed with nutrients and rich in color.

When harvest time comes, it comes big-time. For the gardener, the challenge now may be to keep ahead of a tsunami of vegetables.

Peas are the cool ladies of the spring and fall garden. Like every other vegetable I can think of, they’re just so much better when they’re fresh from vine to plate — plus they’re easy to grow.